Twitter: More than 2.4 million SOPA tweets

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Twitter's post about SOPA tweets

By Athima Chansanchai

If there's one thing that makes people tweet, it's a cause. And yesterday, the SOPA blackout proved that millions will rally to counter any kind of Internet censorship. Twitter reported that more than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets flooded onto the microblogging site on Jan. 18, including Mark Zuckerberg's first tweet since 2009.

Wikipedia also found that, "At one point,#wikipediablackout constituted 1% of all tweets, and?SOPA accounted for a quarter-million tweets hourly during the blackout."

We used Storify to find some under the #SOPAblackout hashtag. As you can see, there was some creativity about the redactions people felt would come with the SOPA/PIPA muzzle. ?

Those who commented on the frustrating similarity between #SOPA and #SOAP also decided to have some good, clean fun with it.

And then there was the pro-SOPA/PIPA Recording Industry Association of America's Jonathan Lamy, who couldn't help but throw a sucker punch at Wikipedia?? a major opponent of SOPA/PIPA that blacked out the content on its English site and still saw 162 million views on its home page?? referring to the online encyclopedia as the go-to place for students who need help on their papers. (We notice that the tweet has since been excised, so thanks Gizmodo for capturing it while it was alive!)

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Source: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10190155-twitter-more-than-24-million-sopa-tweets

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